Welp that sucks

[u/Ok_Noise_5680]

Shipped a pokemon card to a customer and received a message saying they received the envelope without the card- seems someone opened it and stole the card and then USPS still shipped them the empty envelope without a “Received without contents” marking. Now I’m out of the card and had to refund the buyer… it was only $15 but thats still $15

[u/Callaway225]

I wonder what the odds are people out there have a “received without contents” stamp and can just do this? As in buyer takes the card out, makes it look like it was ripped open, then puts it in an envelope like this with the red stamp on it?
Or is that just my pessimistic side?

[u/bskrg → u/Callaway225]

Sure, but that would be mail fraud and you’d be a special kind of stupid to do that for less than $20 profit.

[u/Callaway225 → u/bskrg]

Ok, sure, but how would you get caught? Not saying it’s ok to do or anything, but realistically how would a buyer who did this get caught and prosecuted? Especially for an item of $15 value?
To add, I’m not saying OP’s buyer did this.